Maintaining freshness of produce and other fresh products is challenging for grocers and their suppliers. Here we discuss why, and how some of these challenges can be solved.
Service Supply Chain
Supply chain to provide service, repair, maintenance, and implementation, including spare parts supply chain, repair equipment supply chain, technician/resource management, etc.
Freshness Wars — Part One: Freshness, the Foundation of Competitiveness in Grocery
The quality of fresh food is the prime determinant of where consumers decide to shop for their groceries. Here we discuss why that is so and the role of freshness in competition for grocery market share.
Agile Demand-Supply Alignment – Part 3B: Solution Assessments
Our assessment of ANVYL, a platform for managing out-sourced production and suppliers, monitoring and dealing with disruption in production and logistics, with integrated sourcing and procurement tools.
AI/Machine Learning for Supply Chain: Into the Future – Part One
A discussion of how AI/ML can help companies become more resilient and deal with change and uncertainty.
Agile Demand-Supply Alignment – Part 3A: Solution Assessments
The first installment of our ADSA solution assessments focuses on Alloy, a solution for CPG companies to improve their downstream visibility and build a supply chain driven by end-consumer demand.
Agile Demand-Supply Alignment – Part 2G
We discuss an approach to evaluating potential Agile Demand-Supply Alignment solutions, including discovering, shortlisting, and selection processes.
Transparent Cost-to-Serve Customer Relationships (TCR) – Part One
Profit is reduced when salespeople make deals that don’t take into account supply chain constraints and inventory imbalances. This article explores this phenomenon and a new approach to bringing supply chain awareness into the sales process.
AI for Supply Chain: Use Cases – Part Two
We look at the use of AI for demand planning and forecasting, as well as inventory management and making MEIO (multi-echelon inventory optimization) work better.
Agile Demand-Supply Alignment – Part 2F
When evaluating an ADSA platform, it is important to look beyond the functionality and consider implementation, services, pricing, ROI, and TCO.
AI for Supply Chain: Use Cases – Part One
This series explores the many supply chain-related use cases of AI, starting with pricing and promotion
Agile Demand-Supply Alignment – Part 2E
A discussion of requirements for Agile Demand-Supply Alignment (ADSA) solutions for demand management (demand-side visibility, time-phased views, POS and channel data visibility, order pegging, demand sensing, retail planning capabilities), and analytic capabilities (e.g. supplier performance, carrier performance, lead-time analytics, total landed cost optimization.)